Carving on the Edge presents: �Evenings to Remember� with Master Carvers, Film & Food

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Friday, September 5th, 2014
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Join us for two evenings of presentations by historians and master carvers on First Nations history and traditions, Viking styles, and contemporary explorations. (By donation.)

Friday evening � 7:30pm � 9:30pm

7:30pm: Art in Context: An Introduction to the Place of Art in Contemporary Culture.
Dan Law is a contemporary installation artist as well as a traditional arts instructor. Dan received his MA from Regent College in 2013, and was granted the 2013 Christianity and the Arts prize for his work on the relationship between work, art, and spirituality. Dan and his family have been in Tofino since 2001.

8:30 pm A Viking Journey to the Present with Christen Dokk Smith.
Through the history and traditions of Viking carving and the work at Oslo�s Viking Ship Museum, Christen Dokk Smith will show the experimental landscape of Viking carving today as well as his own personal journey in wood carving.

Saturday evening � 7:30pm � 9:30pm

7:30pm �The Wood Speaks� Artist Tim Paul and son Tom Paul will present a slide show and talk on three generations of traditional carving, and its journey into the contemporary.

Nuu-chah-nulth artist Tim Paul was born in 1950 in the isolated village of Esperanza Inlet, north of Tofino on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. He began carving in 1975 under the direction of Ben Andrews and later with John Livingston at the Arts of the Raven studio in Victoria, BC. He accepted the position of Assistant Carver to Richard Hunt at the Thunderbird Park at the Royal British Columbia Museum in 1977 and seven years later he became the first carver from outside of the Hunt family to hold the position of senior carver.

During his time with the museum he accepted and initiated many prestigious totem pole commissions including the Great Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Hull, Quebec and in Auckland, New Zealand as a presentation to commemorate the 1990 Commonwealth Games. In addition to these successes, Tim Paul also worked as the Chief Carver on projects for Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England. Tim has been asked to make ceremonial pieces and cultural commissions through out his career. He has also honoured traditional guidelines for making pieces that would represent the Nuu-chah-nulth people around the world.

8:30 pm An Evening with Joe David: One of the most respected master artists of the northwest coast, Joe will present a slide show of his thoughts and works.

Nuu-chah-nulth artist Joe David, born in Clayoquto Sound, is one of the most respected master artists of the Northwest Coast. Museums, private collectors, and corporations collect his graphics, wood sculpture, silver, paintings and bronze internationally. He often lectures on Northwest Coast art. He studied art in Seattle and San Marcos, Texas, but his interest in his own heritage and tradition led him to Bill Holm, the Northwest Coast scholar at the University of Washington, and also to Duane Pasco, an early artist of the contemporary generation of Northwest Coast art, to begin an intensive study of traditional Northwest Coast objects. His later investigations concentrated on only Nuu-chah-nulth. He has had a long-term relationship with the Maori of New Zealand and has attended and participated in many events there. In 2000, he was the first artist chosen for the Aboriginal Artist in Residence program at the Pilchuck Glass School. He resides in Tofino.